pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net chapter 28 versus one and two to you oh Lord I call my rock be not deaf to me last if you be silent to me I become like those who go down to the pit hear the voice of my pleas for Mercy when I cry to you for help when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary
 I love this posture of David in the psalm as I as I read it again just hear how desperate he is like so desperate that he knows if God does not answer him if God does not provide help for him and mercy toward him he is done he's hopeless without God to you oh Lord I call my rock be not deaf to me in other words please hear me because if you are silent to me I will become like those who go down to the pit you don't hear me oh God I am lost I'm a hopeless hear the voice of my pleas for Mercy like I'm pleading before you when I cry to be crying out to you for help when I lift up my hands toward your most holy Saints where the whole picture is he saying I'm focused on you I need you if you don't come through
 done and this is what prayer is all about prayer is an expression of our dependence on God like this so we're saying to God. I need this I need this I can't do this without your help I can't do this without your mercy I can't get through today without this or that I will fall flat on my face without you and it's true play me some Jesus and John 15:5 right apart from me you can do nothing and you will fall flat on your face and your faith in your desire to be the man or woman God has called you to be with a husband or wife got called you to be your parents or student child whenever positions God has given you and and then the follower of Jesus that God has created and called you to be experienced Abundant Life the way he's designed you to live none of those things are possible without his help without his Mercy
 so it is entirely right to continually use words like I plead in prayer I'm crying to you in prayer God for this or that and yes I think there are there times in our life when we feel this more acutely I know there are people listen to this right now and we're walking through particular challenges some very very deep trials and you feel like this you feel like this for sure like God I can't I can't make it today without your mercy I can't make it today without your help I needed and pleading for your help but the reality is that should be the posture of our hearts all the time
 even when things are going great they're going great because of the grace and mercy of God in that moment and so for us to continually cry for help to continually plead for Mercy knowing in this is the beauty of what the psalmist is confessing here in Psalm 28 I know you will not be deaf to me I know you will not be silent to me you get down to her 60 says blessed be the Lord for he has heard the voice of my pleas for Mercy the Lord is my strength and my shield and him my heart trusts and I am helps he knows God will hear he knows God will answer he knows God will be his strength and shield and God will help him
 and you and I can do the same thing today as we pray right now together
 can I please hear our cries for help in each of Our Lives I'm thinking about so many different things in my life right now and I can't even imagine all the different things you know that are going on in different people's lives right now we look to you we lift our hands towards your most holy sanctuary and we say right now we need you a God we need your help we need your mercy we need your wisdom we need your strength we need your guidance we need your leadership we need your provision
 and we need your peace we need your hope all these things are we will we will fall flat on our faces apart from you oh God we can't we can't do anything today apart from your mercy apart from your help and we praise you we can't do anything today especially the hard things that are surrounding us more than anything and anything we can have to do anything today or tomorrow no matter no matter how hard or easy they might seem to us we can't breathe without you we can't do anything without you you are are we are totally dependent upon you and we praise you for your faithfulness to us we praise you that you hear the voice of our pleas for mercy
 you are our strength and our Shield we confessed that together right now blessed be the Lord the Lord is our strength and our shield and and you are Hearts trust we trust in you and we are help where help to buy you we praise you for your help in our lives even as we pray for your help in our lives guy pray this over every single person listening to this right now that the day would know your help that they would cry out to you for help in Humble desperation and they would see you as their strength and their Shield they would know you hear their pleas for mercy and their cries for help and you answer in every way they need a God we praise you for answering and every way we need
 we bless your name and you are Hearts trust and we are helped thank you for hearing his Jesus we pray all of this in your name and one who makes prayer like this possible that makes communion with God like this possible in Jesus name we pray amen